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Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016

institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …

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Institutional change and persistence : what does the long-run evidence tell us?

Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal; Tagem, Abrams Mbu Enow - 2024

There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively … little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to … know how institutions change. This paper provides a systematic econometric investigation of long-run patterns of …

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Revisiting the methodology of Myrdal in Asian Drama 50 years on

Stewart, Frances - 2018

This paper reviews the main methodological innovations in Asian Drama. It considers whether Myrdal's perspectives have been adopted by development analysts, and where fresh thinking is needed, particularly in the light of changes occurring in the half-century since he wrote Asian Drama. The...

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REDD+ as performance-based aid : general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

Angelsen, Arild - 2013

REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...

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Using remote tracking technologies to audit and understand medicine theft

Jablonski, Ryan; Seim, Brigitte; Barbosa, Mariana Carvalho - 2023

Medicine theft is a leading cause of inadequate healthcare. Audits of public health supply chains suggest that up to a third of medicines go missing in low-income countries, disproportionately affecting those facing greater health risks and poverty. Despite much investment, policy-makers...

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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam

Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …

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Land issues in Vietnam 2006 - 14 : markets, property rights, and investment

Markussen, Thomas - 2015

This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet Nam from a number of different angles. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set to present descriptive results on...

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No taxation without property rights : formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa

Nistotskaya, Marina; D'Arcy, Michelle - 2021

The arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is understudied. To address this gap, we theorize that formalization of individual property rights facilitates economic...

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The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Markussen, Thomas - 2017

We use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of formal, private land property rights (written...

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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments : evidence from rural Tanzania

Sipangule, Kacana - 2017

The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...

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